Texas prison board approves health care contract - Houston Chronicle
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The Texas prison board on Friday approved a $46.8 million contract to lease a handful of beds at a hospital in Huntsville as part of a first-time move to secure offender health care services outside its traditional university health providers. ... The remaining 20 percent of state prisoners, primarily those incarcerated in West Texas, get health care through the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. The prison agency and Texas Tech, which has not raised similar complaints of financial losses, have a contract through 2013. Texas Tech officials have not expressed similar financial concerns with their contract. Read the full story >> |
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